jknoepfler

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by jknoepfler 4mo ago
Yeah that struck me as shallow, tone-deaf and ignorant. People have very good, very legitimate reasons for "booing" GenAI. Most human interactions with GenAI are either with corpo sludge or overly cheerful, dangerously useless te
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by jknoepfler 4mo ago
Whether that would constitute restitution or furtherance of a Ponzi scheme is open for debate, I guess...
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by jknoepfler 4mo ago
The Trump administration has exactly one motive, and that is accumulation of wealth. There is literally no other reason they would do anything. Even if there were legitimate economic or security concerns, those aren't motivating to the
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by jknoepfler 4mo ago
I consider it on-par with LinkedIn posts. It inhabits a nether-space between reality and fiction where names, numbers and buzzwords are thrown around without much concrete connection to reality. The LinkedIn MBA hive-mind doesn't give
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by jknoepfler 4mo ago
There also isn't any meaningful articulation of why this is a "leap forward"... literally everything claimed in the article has been claimed in the same breathless tones in articles written a year prior. I get that there&#x27
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by jknoepfler 4mo ago
There is a rather specific irony in pulling up the ladder when your roof is on fire...
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by jknoepfler 4mo ago
Well now I'm disappointed that it doesn't come with scaffolding.
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by jknoepfler 4mo ago
One thing that bothers me about these conversations: failure is an important signal that what we're doing isn't working as well as we thought it would, not a sign of the apocalypse. Kids need to understand how to adjust and grow f
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
I agree that personification has value, and there's a happy medium to be struck. I don't know that we need to recite a compassion sutra at the head of every story, although I guess it couldn't hurt?
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
Try starting your user stories "As a human being fully endowed with creative and critical faculties who yearns for purposeful, reciprocal engagement within my Lebenswelt..." and see how it goes?
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
Confidently, even. Which uh... if I've learned anything about PR speak, sentences generally mean the opposite of what they say.
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
While unlikely to happen at scale, by way of anecdata I'll say that I and my extended family have almost all shifted money away from funds that are heavily coupled to the fate of GenAI. The bottom is going to fall out of the market and
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
I find it takes me more time... sometimes it has the answer, often it has pure bullshit. I need to verify everything that comes out of it myself before repeating at anyway. If people are just naked copy-pasting that field... which, ugh, of
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
If you're admitting students to Berkeley who can't figure out how to independently close gaps in their own knowledge quickly (formal or otherwise), you have bigger problems. I self-taught a bunch of remedial math when I went back
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
I experience most bot interactions as sludge. That's not entirely rational on my part, but it does accurately describe my reactions. Almost never in my life - maybe not even once? - has being directed to an automated service made my li
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
a.k.a. textbook bubble behavior
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
It was a joke about Brexit. A joke about a joke, if you will.
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
Most people will experience it as sludge, if they experience it at all. Countries that do not aggressively regulate AI out will see our already profoundly eroded customer service ecosystem disintegrate completely. The already opaque and awf
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
particularly academic writing... said having worked as an editor at an academic journal long before ChatGPT was a thing, and having corrected many hyphens to m-dashes.
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
If by "much faster" you mean ~10% faster, then sure. Having actually measured gains across a few teams, I haven't found anything faster than that. And that's making no effort to amortize across the slowdowns introduced b
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
In what way, exactly? It's one thing to assert an analogy between two things, and quite another to assert an identity. The specific example given was divergent models of colliding magnetic field lines. How are the models religious? How
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
Brad Gerstner might need a primer in asset depreciation.
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
Mandatory "Don't Create the Torment Nexus": https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-cr...
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
If GDP is going up, we must be wealthier and more productive, right? Surely? (/s)
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
I'm working in a large enterprise that is leveraging AI aggressively. Anecdotally, I'd wager that the modest/incremental but real gains from boring, daily application pale in comparison to the wasted cycles on terrible ideas,
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
Right, all of those notoriously under-employed phds from MIT...
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
Note that MIT carefully avoided identifying one of the root causes of this - the so called "Genesis" program that replaces all traditional, peer-reviewed national science funding programs with a half-baked GenAI drivel-fest with n
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
Monopolizing talent is a zero sum game. If your tally is in the negative, you're experiencing brain drain.
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by jknoepfler 5mo ago
This is a very bad comparison. You can see that immediately if you think to yourself "can I see a future in which we compile code with LLMs?". The answer is no. That's a terrible idea, and the fact that it's a terrible i
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by jknoepfler 6mo ago
Isn't this precisely the pattern of behavior that gets you sued for anti-competitive practices?

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